Eileen Atkins

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Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent men, women, and children.

99% of those responsible were never prosecuted; most were never even questioned.

The Allies knew what their crime was.

The Allies knew where a great many of the murderers could be found - Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and numerous countries in South America.

The Allies had an endless wealth of evidence to present to the courts.

The Allies unanimously agreed to prosecute those responsible when they drew up The London Agreement in August 1945.

But, after the late 1940s, these very same Allies did almost nothing.

Why?

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Getting Away with Murder(s) (2021)

Eileen Atkins was born in a Salvation Army Women's Hostel in north London. Her father was a gas meter reader; her mother, a seamstress and barmaid. A drama teacher taught her how to drop her Cockney accent, and she studied Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. Her breakthrough role in "The Killing of Sister George" took her to Broadway.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 10 wins & 13 nominations total

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Eileen Atkins and Susanne Lothar in Poirot (1989)

Eileen Atkins and John Standing in A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)

Barbara Hershey, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Marie-Josée Croze, Serge Hazanavicius, Susanne Lothar, David Morrissey, David Suchet, Samuel West, Joseph Mawle, Jessica Chastain, Denis Ménochet, Brian J. Smith, Elena Satine, and Stanley Weber in Poirot (1989)

Eileen Atkins and Michele Dotrice in BBC Play of the Month (1965)

Eileen Atkins, Michele Dotrice, and Janet Suzman in BBC Play of the Month (1965)

Eileen Atkins, Michele Dotrice, and Janet Suzman in The Three Sisters (1970)

Colin Firth, Eileen Atkins, and Emma Stone in Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Colin Firth, Eileen Atkins, and Simon McBurney in Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Eileen Atkins in Upstairs Downstairs (2010)

Eileen Atkins and Benjamin Whitrow in Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)

Known for:

Gosford Park

7.2

Mrs. Croft

2001

Cold Mountain

7.2

Maddy

2003

What a Girl Wants

5.8

Jocelyn Dashwood

2003

Robin Hood

6.6

Eleanor of Aquitaine

2010

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Actress

Doc Martin
- Ruth Ellingham
- TV Series
- 2011–2022
Paddington 2
- Madame Kozlova (as Dame Eileen Atkins)
- 2017
Vikings: Wolves of Midgard
- Narrator
- Video Game
- 2017
Carnage
- Dorothy
- 2017
The Crown
- Queen Mary
- TV Series
- 2016
ChickLit
- Peggy Law
- 2016
Vicious
- Rosemary (voice)
- TV Series
- 2016
Valentine's Kiss
- Catherine Maier
- TV Mini Series
- 2015
Magic in the Moonlight
- Aunt Vanessa
- 2014
This Is Jinsy
- Miss Penny
- TV Series
- 2014
Beautiful Creatures
- Gramma
- 2013
The Scapegoat
- Lady Spence
- 2012
Psychoville
- Nurse Edwina Kenchington
- TV Series
- 2009–2011
The Hours: The Lives of Mrs. Dalloway
- Excerpts read by (voice)
- Video
- 2011
Tell Me
- Dorothy
- Short
- 2010

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Official site
- Theater_org
Alternative name
- Dame Eileen Atkins
Height
- 5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
Born
- June 16, 1934
- Clapton, London, England, UK
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Her National Theatre credits include: Honor in the UK premiere of "Honour" by Joanna Murray-Smith (2003), Gunhild in Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" (1996), Hannah in "Night of the Iguana" by Tennessee Williams (1996), Paulina in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and the Queen in "Cymbeline" (both 1988, also world tour), the elderly woman in "Mountain Language" a new play by Harold Pinter (1988), Mrs Hitchcock in "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance" by John Arden (1984), Jenet in "The Lady's Not For Burning" by Christopher Fry (1978), Hesione in Shaw's "Heartbreak House" (1975), and Alice 'Childie' McNaught in "The Killing of Sister George" a new play by 'Frank Marcus' (1964, also NYC).
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She has no children. She stated in an interview with the Radio Times that she has never had any maternal instinct and put that down to the fact that she did not get on with her mother.

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In England, as here, there are always two kinds of audiences: the Royal Shakespeare and the West End. In the last 10 years, audiences have been changed by television. One can tell: people don't concentrate and they expect lighter fare - and I do hate disappointing the audiences. One lady came up to me afterwards here, very complimentary, and then she said 'Well, this is terrible heavy.' And I thought 'Oh dear, you think this is heavy? Because it isn't, it's just serious.